Wire fence



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M. NEIL & P. H. BISSELL.

WIRE FENCE.

Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

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MICHAEL NEIL AND FRANK I-I. BISSELL, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Fatent NO. 602,867, dated April 26, 1898. Application filed July 29, 1897. Serial No. 646,313- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MICHAEL NEIL and FRANK H. BIssELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Our invent-ion has relation to stays for the runners of wire fences; and in such connection it relates to the particular construction and arrangement of the stays in conjunction with the runners of a fence to permit pressure being exerted against the runners without causing permanent derangement of the same and to afford certain substantially universal movements of the runners without actual permanent displacement or disfigurement thereby of the fence.

The principal object of our invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective and substantially universal telescoping stay for a wire fence in which particularly the runner embraced thereby is afforded a certain defined range of vertical movement as well as lateral and other movements without disarrangin g or disorganizing the fence in its entirety and at the same time providing a stay which is substantial, readily applied to or coupled with the runners, and at the same time more or less ornamental in appearance.

Our invention consists of the improvements in stays for wire fences when constructed and arranged in the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope or characteristic features of our invention will be more fully understood from the following description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawin gs, forming part hereof, in which Figure l is a side elevational view of a wire fence with a stay embodying the main features of our invention shown in application to the line wires or runners of the fence. Fig.

2 is a similar view, on an enlarged scale, of the stay of our said invention imapplication to the line wires or runners of the fence 3 and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, A and A represent two vertical posts of a fence of any suitable construction and which are engaged by a series of longitudinal line wires or runners B.

G is the stay of our present invention, consisting of the loop-shaped members 0 and c", linked together in series. Each member is formed into a double oblong or, preferably, oppositely-tapering double connected loop, the terminals of which united or connected loops are twisted, preferably, in opposite directions upon the bar 0 of the member in the form of a coil 0 at or about the middle of the same, as clearly and fully illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. The connected complemental members at the point of linked connection are adapted, when a line wire or runner of the fence is inserted through the same, to form a more or less circular bearing 0'' for such line wire or runner. This bearing 0' is adapted to permit of the telescoping of the same and of a more or less universal movement of one member of the connected stay with respect to the other when pressure is exerted upon or against the line wire or runner B of the fence, as will be readily understood from Fig. 2 of the drawings, and also a certain range of vertical movement in the bearings c" of the connected stay O, whereby when the energy which influenced any of said movements is relieved or removed the respective line wires or runners will return to initial positions in the bearings c of the stay Ofor example, the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The stays C, as to the topmost and bottommost members thereof, are secured to the top and bottom line wires or runners B by being preferably coiled around the samefor instance, as shown in the drawings.

Among the advantageous features of our invention may be mentioned that the said jointed stay effectually and reliably permits of a universal movement of the wires of the fence without derangement or displacement of the same, which is due to the character, length, and arrangement'of the loop, affording thereby the telescoping feature thereof as well as an easy yielding of the same in different directions from any given point, thereby rendering the defined stay especially desirable in fence construction and particularly so because of the ability to maintain the line wires or runners in connection therewith in their relative symmetrical locations or positions in the fence.

Having thus described the nature and objects of our invention, What We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a Wire fence, in combination with longi tudinal Wires or runners, of a stay consisting of a series of linked members, of which each of the terminal members consists of a single strand having one end coiled around the upper or lower runner and the other end coiled about the body of the strand to form a loop, the complemental or intermediate links of the stay each consisting of a double-looped strand, the ends of the strand being coiled in opposite directions upon the body of the link,

. our signatures in the presenoe'of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL NEIL. FRANK H. BISSELL.

Witnesses:

VERNETTA SHADE, D. I. PRUGH. 

